linqu-, lict-

Body of the crime.

The basic [or body] of facts [necessary to prove the existence of a specific crime]. This refers to evidence which can be used to convict a thief; such as, catching him with stolen goods; or proof in a murder trial of the actual death of the victim. It does not mean the body of the victim.

Another translation: "The terrible evidence that a crime has been committed." An example might be arson, in which the corpus delicti might be some proof (a gasoline can?) that the fire was set on purpose not just a burned-down building.

1. In civil and criminal law, a wrong or injury done to someone.
2. A legal offense; a misdemeanor.
3. An offense or transgression against the law.

1. Juvenile delinquency: an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor.
2. Antisocial or illegal behavior or acts; especially, by young people.
3. A tendency to be negligent and uncaring: "He inherited his delinquency from his father".
4. A failure in or the neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default; such as, a debt, that is past due or otherwise delinquent: "She was accused of delinquency in payment of her rent."
5. Wrongful, illegal, or antisocial behavior; for example, "juvenile delinquency".
6. Any misdeed, offense, or misdemeanor.

Delinquency is the failure of any kind to perform a required duty or obligation.

1. Failing to do what the law or duty requires.
2. Overdue in payment; such as, a delinquent account.
3. A person who neglects or fails to do what the law or duty requires.

A delinquent leaves off doing what he ought to do; such as, delinquent debtors leave their bills unpaid.

Relating to, or characteristic of a delinquent.

1. A person who is abandoned by society; especially, a person without a permanent home and means of support; a vagrant; a homeless person, a bum.
2. A vessel (a boat or a ship) abandoned in open water by its officers and crew without any hope or intention of returning to it; a ship abandoned on the high seas.
3. Personal property abandoned or thrown away by the owner.
4. Someone who is guilty of neglect of duty.

A human derelict is someone who by reason of his/her actions, etc., has been abandoned by respectable people.

1. A deliberate or conscious neglect; negligence; delinquency: "He committed a dereliction of duty.
2. The act of abandoning something.
3. The state of being abandoned.
4. The gaining of land from water, in consequence of the sea, river, or stream shrinking back below the usual water mark.

Dereliction is abandonment of duty; when soldiers are derelict in their duty, they leave it.

1. With the crime blazing.
2. A legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offense.

The phrases: "caught red-handed" or "caught in the act" are English equivalents.

While the crime is blazing.

A reference to someone who is caught in the very act of committing a crime.

Someone who is guilty of antisocial behavior or of violations of the law, but is too young to be punished as an adult criminal.

The place of a crime.

A corpus delicti establishes that a crime has been committed; while a locus delicti is the place where the crime occurred.

No one ought to be punished twice for one offense.

No one shall be placed in peril (jeopardy) of legal penalties more than once upon the same accusation.

Double jeopardy is forbidden in the United States constitution and protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal or conviction and against multiple punishments for the same offense.

1. An object left over from the past and preserved as a memento or object of veneration.
2. Something kept in remembrance; a souvenir; a memento.

A relic is any object surviving from an earlier culture, especially a valuable or symbolic object.

In religion, a relic is the mortal remains of a saint and includes any object that has been in contact with the saint. Christianity was governed throughout the Middle Ages by the belief that spiritual virtue could be transmitted through relics of a person who in life was blessed with miraculous powers.

Coffins and small objects; such as, combs, jewelry, and clothing were commonly sanctified and subsequently housed in beautiful reliquary caskets or shrines.

Ecclesiastical centers with a collection of relics would be visited by large numbers of pilgrims, especially on saints' days, when the objects were put on special display and sometimes paraded.

1. A geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared.
2. An organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment which has changed considerably from that in which it originated.
3. A species of organism surviving long after the extinction of a related species, or a once widespread natural population, surviving only in isolated localities because of environmental changes.

Soil formed on a pre-existing landscape but which was not subsequently buried under younger sediments.

It should be taken into account that relict soils may represent a wide range of time periods.